The evening world., 1887-10-14

fist, is o jolly, hearty fellow, and he
assured the scribe that there was no pain
and almost no bother at all in having
tooth cavities filled and SO the re-
porter submitted himself for an afternoon to
the soul-inspiring operation. OF course he
was obliged to wait an hour and a half while
several other people enjoyed themselves in
the great, luxurious. c~ardinal-red easy-chair
in the doctors private Office and of course
this hour and q half, every minute of it,
added fresh confidence to his stock on hand.
oh, doctor! l know / shall faint -" came
in feeble accents from the little room, and
the scribe felt that O sweet little woman, who
had just told her female companion in the
outer Office that she had as soon have q tooth
out as to eat, was in trouble. There came
the inaudible tones of the doctor in encour-
agement. Then "Ugh-oo-agh-ohl Oh,
dear That was only cutting the goomb ?
Oh, l know 1 shall faint Wait No, not
yet! " came from the first voice, followed by
expostulatory tones from the doctor. The
young woman had been in the private office
twenty minutes, and there was q rustling, and
she emerged, the dentist following and bow
ing her out with: "Well, some other day,
then, when your nerves are stronger, and
then We'll have it out"
Then a fond mamma, accompanied by a
boy who wore his head in q red flannel sling,
was interviewed, and Tommy" was seated
VI tne OlR cnalr. Ibis tme tne door stoou
open, and the reporter saw the doctor pre-
pare with 8 mirror about as big as his thumb
nail to take O view of the interior Of the
Youngsters head. But the patient clapped
both hands on his mouth, leaving only a
space between his fingers wide enough, to
allow the most unearthly yells to come out.
COW, wowl y~ah-hoo-erl val" said the
boy. But after ten minutes of coaxing,
wheedling, threatening, .bribing and reason
ing from his mother, the boy opened his
month lpnn anp1uh En- lot tho Hapfict ~ faka
q look inside" Then the willy practitioner
deity inserted, not the little mirror, but a
pair of steel candle shutters, and with one or
two quick, half circular twists of his hand
the mouth of the young hopeful, which added
much to the acoustic properties of the open
ing. A view of the extracted member, how:
ever, soon forced curiosity into the place OF
and happy, with the tooth wrapped up in a
bit of cotton, while his mother satisfied her.
self through the doctor that II the tooth
should accidently or otherwise be lost and Q
swine should find it, it would not necessarily
follow that a swine's tooth would grow in
But the reporters turn came finally, Just as
he had about concluded that he could wait
till some other day just as well, and had made
up his mind to say that a pressing engage.
ment called him away. His friend, the den.
fist. wouldn't hear of this for an instant. The
scribe was not q coward, surely! OF course
he wasn't, and he laid him down in the easy
chair and resigned himself to his fate.
TIL dentist, as has been stated, Is Jolly and
very entertaining, and he beguiled his patient
with capital stories while he took a survey OF
the opening in his face with the little mirror,
sounded for bedrock with q mall drill,
knocked or pried off the inside walls of some
of the teeth, first punching a hole with ivory
to obtain a grip and finally pried the con.
tiguous teeth away from the one he proposed
to work on SO that he could force q sheet.
rubber down on it, in which operation he
drove several of the old, %sulphurous variety
down the throat whence they came. From
this point in the interview the dentist did all
the talking.
After knocking off a few odd corners Of
teeth which he had not noticed before, and
cheering the patient up with the remark thai
" We are fairly started, now" that DENTS,
proceeded to inflict the most awful fortunes
ever suffered by a free man in a free country,
First there was I" just the sweetest and mos
scientifically constructed little foot power
drill ever made" and he showed how hi
could manipulate the swiftly revolving little
thing on the end of q timber wire shafting
inc then he put it into practical operation
1t was cute, and 1t sent most accute thrills Of
misery through the nervous system of the
patient. He tried TO say so, but his inarticulatt
thought was met with a cheerful, but very
positive denial by the operator. who seemed
TO divine it Immediately, and the revolving
wire went faster and the needle pointed drill
went deeper, until it had passed through tn,